Theater Review: Let Me Spare You Lisa Kron’s Claustrophobic In the Wake
The play tries to expand the scorched-earth self-analysis of Kron's 'Well,' but it's a far more conventional work.
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The play tries to expand the scorched-earth self-analysis of Kron's 'Well,' but it's a far more conventional work.
Kander and Ebb's final collaboration, which turns a civil-rights parable into a minstrel show, is, on its own discomfiting terms, utterly successful.
If Baz Luhrman and Laurie Anderson got stoned listening to late-night college-radio electro-pop, this is what they'd hallucinate.
I intuit something deeply personal in Ben Willimon's play, but every aspect of it points to a sloppy wallow in musky self-pity.
Apart from Boyd Gaines, we're treated to two very famous voices, and very little else.
In a whooshing 65 minutes, Maxwell delivers a tremendous theatrical head rush playing a former wing-walker trying to recover from a stroke.
Mark Rylance's goofy set of fake choppers in 'La Bête' are not alone on Broadway, and off.
Even the cheesiest Cheesehead may not find much to move him here.
It's damned hard to resist deploying a "Blade Re-Runner" pun
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"There's often a fine line between the stupidest thing you could do ... and the sexiest thing you could do."
Anyone seeking this generation’s true second coming of 'Gatsby' should clear a day for a trip to the Public Theater.
"A more voluptuous Cherry Jones than we're accustomed to."
This feel-good story with a grim social undergirding, from the writer of 'Billy Elliot,' feels far, far less personal.
You enter the house, which is also the main character; you're directed to your room; and things begin to happen — or no happen, as the case may be.
A cabinet of wonders, built atop David Lean's dour 1945 film about an impossible extramarital affair.
"Everything, Scott," he told me, draping a pal-o-mine arm around my shoulders, "is flirting."
This is a rube tragedy — a respectful and honest-feeling one, for a change.
Actually, they're doing more than putting up with him.
The comedienne and reality star talks to us about her long July.